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J. G. BAUER.

PAPER BOX.

No. 278,851. 7 Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT JACOB C. BAUER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,851, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed May 4, 1883. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JACOB G. BAUER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Phil adelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Paper Boxes, of which thea view of the box-blank; Fig. 2, a perspective view showing one flap only open at one end of the box; Fig. 3, a perspective view showing all the flaps open at one end of the box, and Fig. 4 a perspective view showing the facilities afforded for the attachment to the box of a band or cord by which the box can be car ried about.

The blank, Fig. 1, is scored in the directions indicated by dotted lines, and is so cut as to form the flaps a a, b b, c c, and (Z d, the parts A, B, O, and D defined by these scorings forming the four sides of the quadrangular body of the box, and the extension as of the part Abeing pasted or otherwise secured to the part B. Each of the flaps a c has two slots, y y, and each of the flaps 00 has also two similar slots, to w, if the plan described hereinafter of attaching an elastic band to these flaps be adopted.

It will beobserved on reference to Fig. 3 that there are two opposite plain flaps, b and (I, which must be first folded down in closing the end of the box, after which the flap 0 may be turned down, and finally the flap (1.

In order to connect the flaps to and c to gether, I attach to the former an elastic loop, M, which may be done by passing the ends of an elastic strip through holes in the said flap and securing the said ends on the under side of the same; but by far the simplest plan is to pass a common and light endless band of rub her over the end of the flap 0, taking care that it is introduced into the slotsw w, when part of the band on the top of the flap will form the desired elastic loop, the other part of the band being beneath the flap. After the flap a has been partly turned down over the flap 0 the band may be stretched over the end of the said flap a and. introduced into the slots 3 y, when, on releasing the band it will bind the said flap to the flap c.

The blank, Fig. 1, is so made that both ends will be alike and the flaps to both ends fastened in the same way. This will generally be the case but a box may be made with a permanent base, and constructed to be opened and closed at one end only.

One of the advantages of my invention is the facility which is afforded for combining with the box a cord or band, f, by which the box may be carried about, one end of the cord being attached to the elastic loop at one end of the box, as shown in Fig. 4, and the other end of the cord being attached to the elastic loop at the'other end of the box.

In making the slots they should terminate in enlargements affording proper lodgments for the elastic band.

I claim as my invention l. A paper box in which a'flap, 0, having an elastic loop, M, is combined with a flap, a, having slots 3 substantially as set forth.

2. A paper box in which a flap, 0, having slots w w, and an elastic endless band introduced into the slots, is combined with a flap, a, having slots y y, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, in a paper box, of two elastic bands adapted to confine flaps at each end. of the box, with a cord or band, f, at tached to theelastic bands, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J AOOB C. BAUER.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENFELTER, HARRY SMITH. 

